Connecting Win98 machine to adsl

[haggisinlondon]

Evening

I have 2 Windows XP machines connected my broadband internet connection through a netgear adsl router. These were easy to setup, pretty much plug in and go. I have now got a Toshiba laptop running Windows 98. I have a 3com 10base-t pcmcia card attached which the computer recognises. It does not see the router though.

Can anyone point me in the right direction with this. I am looking in network settings and its pretty different to XP. Do I need to add anything in there?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
Haggis

[Panama Red]

Run the network wizard on one of the XP machines and when it gets to the end, select the option to make a network disk. Then use that disk to set up the network on the laptop. This assumes the laptop has a floppy drive. Make sure you have each computer in the same Workgroup and each must have a separate name. Is your PCMCI card/router wired or wireless?

[haggisinlondon]

Hi Panama Red

Thanks for the reply and the advice. I created the disk and ran it on the laptop. It ran okay and now under network neighbourhood I can see my xp machine. The pcmcia card is wired straight into the router.

I double clicked on INternet explorer and it says detecting proxy settings and then says page cannot be found. Like its not connecting?

[Panama Red]

Reboot the 98 machine again. Also check the Properties of your Lan device to assure you have Client for MS networks, TCP/IP, File and Print Sharing and QOS Packet Scheduler showing up. Check in Internet Options/Connections tab/Lan settings button. Make sure "automatically detect settings is checked".

[glc]

No, 98 does not use the QoS, you will not see it.

UNcheck "automatically detect settings", there should be nothing checked in lan settings.

Start, run, WINIPCFG, select your 3Com adapter, click More Info, and take a screen shot, post it as an attachment please.

[haggisinlondon]

Thanks for your help guys, it seems to be working now that I made those changes.

Haggis